Irwin Sarason, an art director who left the advertising world in 1980 to devote himself to his properties on the East End, died of lung cancer on Feb. 10 at home in Bridgehampton. He was 85.

Scott Leslie Wilson of Wainscott, the owner of a landscaping company, died of complications of leukemia on May 18 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 64 and had been ill for more than three years.

Pat Lillis, who devoted her life to rescuing and caring for every kind of animal, died at home in East Hampton on April 23, having had cancer for several years. She was 70.

The American College of Surgeons certified that Stony Brook Southampton has the right equipment, resuscitative capabilities, blood bank protocols, and surgeons and emergency physicians who are trained in advanced life support and who commit to responding to severe cases within 30 minutes of a patient's arrival.